What would MIX be without a show that titillates, at least
a little. And yet, not without substance. We’re pleased to present a film shot and projected on Super8. To us, that format is a direct link to the DIY spirit of both this show and the festival itself. Even the collaborative nature of the film speaks to the best elements of our community’s organizing projects—that is, as an Army of Lovers, we stand together stronger! Then, going solo, Steifheit I & II are formal
experiments that we’re lucky to get to watch, as the young and then older Albert Sackl compares his long-term jackoff sessions. Allen Ginsberg Gives Great Head is a meditation on freedom, one we in New York should heed before our civil rights disappear altogether. So pleasure your mind while you pleasure yourself at this show of hot and provocative shorts for queers of all genders!
Curated by the Festival Programming Committee.
TRT: 78 min.
Steifheit I & II
Albert Sackl, 1997/2007,16mm, color, silent, 6:00 NY Premiere?
The man in this film beats off, in private, while at the same time pointing the camera at himself and addressing an off-screen outsider. It must be put simply: Sackl doesn’t point just the camera, but his dick too, at us, the viewers, the outsiders, at me, a member of the theater audience. Why? The environment: a non-environment, a black room that isolates his body from its natural environment. This artificial non-space creates distance, both for and from the viewer, in other words between Sackl and me, and for him, from his mise-en-scene, his presentation of himself. As a result Sackl alters his position and places himself at our disposal: the unavoidable struggle with and for the permission to be horny, supposing to be, being able to be, wanting to be or having to be, and the insatiable need to put himself on display. The two unedited scenes, made ten years apart, were shot in single frames. Time lapse condenses the four hours of footage into three minutes of projection time. Then: Steifheit I. Cut. Ten years later. Steifheit II. The same setup, postures, movements. Sackl repeats his actions, though at the same time he seems to be someone else. The nonchalance, playfulness, and the vanity also, have been pushed into the background. Steifheit I shows Sackl as he presents himself and intends to present himself. Steifheit II shows us Sackl demonstrating the act of self-presentation to himself. The distance from the figure being presented is increased as a result of this intervention, the temporal shift and possibly the personal development of the individual Albert Sackl.
Stiffness. This is lost at the end of the second part. Sackl just sits there, waiting—rattled, annoyed, thinking. When an individual takes their place on a stage, they make their own demand, their need vulnerable. Why? Achim Lenger, translated by Steve WilderBonne
Joy Stick Joy
Rufiao Xplastics, 2006, Brazil, video, color, sound, 4 min.
She wants. She gets. She is played by Karen Nofxxx.
ASSPIG
Anthony Viti, 2008, USA, video, color, 9 min. World Premiere
Using the conventions of a structuralist film and sound recorded from super 8 film running through a projector, ASSPIG explores outlaw culture, anal fisting and otherness through a collection of approximately 4,000 images pirated from a gay men’s cruising website.
Bare
Wrik, Mead, 2008, Canada, video, color, 2:30
Through pixelation, a male centerfold attempts to establish his features only to take on more than he can handle.
Minkukär en Dildo (My Cock is a Dildo)
Ester Martin Bergsmark & Emanuel Nyberg, Sweden, video, color, sound, 9 min.
This movie is a queer porn film with an intellectual agenda, loosely based on Beatriz Preciado’s ideas about the body and sex as an interface between biological and technological parts, where anything can be recontextualized or reterritorialized
to be an instrument of pleasure or transformation.
This is the Girl
Catherine Corringer, 2007, France, video, color, 16 min.
A queer erotic fantasy.
Bonne Bourre
Florence, Fradelizi, 2006, France, video, color, 3 min.
Two bodies—two women—an intensive fuck in a toilet - this short is a homage to Jean Genet’s Querelle, celebrating sexuality in all its forms.
In the Closet
Tonje Gjevjon, 2007,video, color, sound, 3:00 US Premiere
Betty comes home from work to have her lunch...
Well Hung Monk
Daniel McKernan, 2008, UK/USA, video, color, 10:15 World Premiere
Documentation of a Performacoid Installation featuring Jhonn Balance (of COIL). This piece is built from polaroid photographs taken by Peter “Sleazy” Christopherson of the magick sex ritual by Black Sun Productions (Massimo & Pierce) featuring Balance as their victim, during their “Plastic Spider Thing 11” performance in Coil’s English home, The North Tower, on August 23, 2002. The performance is a highly moral yet sexually explicit exploration into the relationship between the spider and the fly. The music by Black Sun Productions is an homage to Jhonn Balance. Massimo & Pierce had an extensive and ongoing collaboration with Coil. “Sleep is better than Prayer”— Austin Osman Spare
Allen Ginsberg Gives Great Head
X’ Ho
2007, Singapore, video, color and B&W, 15 min.
A sexually explicit film about a Singaporean dealing with loneliness and the harsh censorship laws of the country. Also, a meditation on and a homage to Allen Ginsberg.
Punk Fuck Fuck!!
Qurash Co-Lab
2008, USA, Super8mm, B&W, sound on CD, 7 min.
A queerly adventurous seduction of the wild & the dumpstered, featuring ravishing horns, re-purposed bikes, excited godzillas, heirloom rim chairs, and a special guest appearance by the matriarch of dildos. Shot with love by a cooperative of talented, anarchist, Brooklyn-based, super-8 lovin’ queers.